When you get to the max elevation, you will see a beautiful view of the Malibu and Santa Monica coastline to your left and the start of the chain link fence in front of you.Ībout 100 yards from here there is a cut out in the chain link fence that you can walk through to get to the top of the stairs. Continue on the dirt road for about another 3/5ths of a mile. Here you will see the yellow roadblock stating you are entering Topanga Canyon. This will wind down around some beautiful houses before turning to a run-down area that you walk through to get to the main dirt road. Just make sure you read the parking signs, but there was a lot of street parking here.Īfter parking, proceed on Sullivan Ridge Road. It is hard to give an exact trailhead address for this hike, but the address I put in my phone was the corner of Capri Drive and Casale Road, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272 which will take you to the start of Sullivan Ridge Fire Road, the road that you will be walking. They planned to make a four-story mansion here as well but it apparently never occurred.Īll that is left standing today is the power station, water tank, gardens, barn and the collapsed machine shed. They also built multiple cement stairs up the side of the neighboring hill to help with the farming and to patrol the area. Among what they made was a power station, machine shed, fully irrigated hillside for growing food, raised gardens, a massive water tank and even a place to store diesel fuel. All in all, it is said that over 4 million dollars was invested into this ranch and there is a fantastic set of structures with that money. Around the time of Pearl Harbor, the Stephens’ were taken into custody from their home. Thus, they set out to build a massive area they could use to keep them safe during the war.Īs we all know, the Germans lost. During that time the Stephens’ would be able to live in their self-sustaining community and then come out when the opportunity presented itself to help with the German take over. In the late 1930’s, during WWII, Winona and Norman Stephens were convinced by a German named Herr Schmidt that when Germany ultimately won the war, the American government would not be able to stay afloat and there would be a time of anarchy in the United States. The history of this area is a little jumbled, but I will do my best to describe what I have heard. Over 500 stairs so make sure you can handle it.4 miles round trip and about 600 feet of elevation.Then after reading countless reviews on friends’ blogs, I knew I needed to see it for myself so I set out. When I first heard about this place, it seemed almost too crazy to believe - an abandoned Nazi camp in the affluent area of the Pacific Palisades that you can hike to.
#BROKEN ROADS RANCH LOUISIANA UPDATE#
Update July 2014 – People in the comments of this post are talking about getting tickets and about different parts of the hike being boarded up, so make sure to read the signs when you visit and check out the comments for the latest information from readers.
Update June 2016 – Oddity Odysseys went and found the barn and powerhouse still there but boarded up.
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